Chinese zodiac · Year of the Rooster
The Metal Rooster: 1981, 2041, 2101
辛酉 · Xin yǒu · Yin Metal stem on the Metal branch
A Metal Rooster year pairs the Heavenly Stem 辛 (Xin, yin Metal) with the Earthly Branch 酉 (yǒu, the Rooster). The pair recurs every sixty years, so in the range AsterNym covers the Metal Rooster years are 1981, 2041, 2101. The animal is the same each time; the stem is what makes a Metal Rooster different from a Wood Rooster or a Fire Rooster. The popular zodiac begins each of these years at Lunar New Year and BaZi begins it at Li Chun, so both boundaries are given below for every year.
What a Metal Rooster is like
Popular Chinese zodiac tradition. For reflection, not prediction.
The Metal Rooster is the most exacting, brilliant with detail and hardest on everyone, itself included.
The Metal Rooster of 1981 is the most exacting of the five, brilliant with detail and hardest on everyone, itself included.
In BaZi terms the Metal stem sits on a Metal branch, the same element twice. Practitioners read a matched pair as a year with one clear voice: the Rooster's nature amplified rather than argued with, strong in its own direction and short of counterweight. Whatever the Rooster does, this year does more of it.
The rest of the Rooster’s character, in love, at work and the growing edge, is on the Year of the Rooster page.
Metal Rooster years and when each begins
The popular zodiac year begins at Lunar New Year; BaZi begins it at Li Chun, the start of spring. Both dates are given so a birth between them can be placed in either system.
| Year | Lunar New Year (popular zodiac) | Ends | Li Chun (BaZi) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 February 1981 | 24 January 1982 | 4 February 1981 |
| 2041 | 1 February 2041 | 21 January 2042 | 3 February 2041 |
| 2101 | outside the table | … | 4 February 2101 |
The next Metal Rooster year is 2041. Check any birthday against the boundary with the finder.
Famous Metal Roosters
Public birth records, assigned by the Lunar New Year boundary.
Common questions
- When does the Year of the Metal Rooster start?
- The 1981 Metal Rooster year began at Lunar New Year on 5 February 1981 and ran to 24 January 1982. The 2041 Metal Rooster year began at Lunar New Year on 1 February 2041 and ran to 21 January 2042. 2101 is outside AsterNym's Lunar New Year table. BaZi turns the year at Li Chun instead (1981: 4 February 1981; 2041: 3 February 2041; 2101: 4 February 2101), so a birth between the two dates carries different year animals in the two systems.
- What is a Metal Rooster personality?
- The Metal Rooster is the most exacting, brilliant with detail and hardest on everyone, itself included. In BaZi terms the Metal stem sits on a Metal branch, the same element twice. Practitioners read a matched pair as a year with one clear voice: the Rooster's nature amplified rather than argued with, strong in its own direction and short of counterweight. Whatever the Rooster does, this year does more of it.
- When is the next Metal Rooster year?
- 2041. The pair of stem 辛 and branch 酉 recurs every sixty years.